But this figure does not include eight known victims in the Florida Keys, or 10 elderly victims who died in a nursing home north of Miami.

County coroners in Monroe, which includes the Keys, have not yet confirmed an official number of fatalities to the FDEM, but a post on the county's Twitter account said eight people died during the storm.

According to the FDEM, the primary causes of death in Florida included drowning, trauma injuries and carbon monoxide poisoning—which can occur as a result of using indoor electricity generators.

The Florida Keys bore the brunt of Hurricane Irma, which struck as a Category Four storm with winds reaching over 130 miles (210 kilometers) per hour.

Irma also killed at least 40 people when it ripped through the Caribbean, bringing the total death toll to at least 112.

Hurricane Irma has formed in the eastern Atlantic as a Category Two storm, just days after the first major hurricane of the season, Harvey, unleashed massive rain and floods over Texas, US officials said Thursday.

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I used my own resources to try to protect the people of Florida. I bought the soybean oil "fish food", carried it to Key West, avoided the suspicious police, and poured 216 gallons into the sea there. The oil spread out to an area of 129.6 square miles, cutting the evaporation that propels hurricanes. Irma avoided my sheen and bumped back into Cuba, being an energy system that, like fire and flood, seeks its own level of least resistance. The storm did diminish, as Matthew had in response to the same, though smaller, soybean oil sheen protections last year. I am a scientist. 23 more trials for a t-test, if I'm not arrested first.

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